May 10, 2017Verse of the DayAs iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 NIVPositive ThoughtsTake Action by Jack CanfieldPosted: 09 May 2017 06:44 AM PDTThings may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham LincolnWhat we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.John RuskinThe world doesn’t pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do. There’s an enduring axiom of success that says, “The universe rewards action.” Yet as simple and as true as this principle is, it’s surprising how many people get bogged down in analyzing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.When you take action, you trigger all kinds of things that will inevitably carry you to success. You let those around you know that you are serious in your intention. People wake up and start paying attention. People with similar goals become aligned with you. You begin to learn things from your experience that cannot be learned from listening to others or from reading books. You begin to get feedback about how to do it better, more efficiently, and more quickly. Things that once seemed confusing begin to become clear. Things that once appeared difficult begin to be easier. You begin to attract others who will support and encourage you. All manner of good things begin to ﬂow in your direction once you begin to take action.TALK IS CHEAP!Over the years of teaching and coaching people in my company and in my seminars, I have found that the one thing that seems to separate winners from losers more than anything else is that winners take action. They simply get up and do what has to be done. Once they have developed a plan, they start. They get into motion. Even if they don’t start perfectly, they learn from their mistakes, make the necessary corrections, and keep taking action, all the time building momentum, until they finally produce the result they set out to produce . . . or something even better than they conceived of when they started.To be successful, you have to do what successful people do, and successful people are highly action-oriented. Once you have created a vision, set goals, broken them down into small steps, visualized and affirmed your success, and chosen to believe in yourself and your dreams, it’s now time to take action. Enroll in the course, get the necessary training, make those sales calls, call the travel agent, start writing that book, start saving for the down payment on your home, join the health club, sign up for those piano lessons, or write that proposal.Most successful people I know have a low tolerance for excessive planning and talking about it. They are antsy to get going. They want to get started. They want the games to begin. A good example of this is my friend Bob Kriegel’s son Otis. When Otis came home for the summer with his new girlfriend after his freshman year in college, they both began looking for jobs. While Otis just picked up the phone and started calling around to see who might need someone, his girlfriend spent the first week writing and rewriting her résumé. By the end of the second day, Otis had landed a job. His girlfriend was still rewriting her résumé. Otis just got into action. He figured if someone asked for a résumé, he’d deal with it then.Planning has its place, but it must be kept in perspective. Some people spend their whole lives waiting for the perfect time to do something. There’s rarely a “perfect” time to do anything. What is important is to just get started. Get into the game. Get on the playing field. Once you do, you will start to get feedback that will help you make the corrections you need to make to be successful. Once you are in action, you will start learning at a much more rapid rate.

20 Years ago marks the day that I made a decision to start this Business. In 1997 I had finished my college degree and had over 25 years of work & volunteer experience. It was a leap of faith and I stepped out into a path that would take all the courage I had. God had The Plan all along and I took it one day at a time. Along the way it was obvious that everything I had experienced and learned up to this point had a purpose. So much has happened over these 20 years it would take volumes to tell all the stories. The Staff Members and I worked side by side to go to any length to serve our Clients/Patients and each other. As time went on my health started to fail. Being a Type 1 Juvenal Diabetic I struggled to manage my blood sugar every single day. After a serious broken foot that setup a bone infection I was on infusion therapy for 3 years. The antibiotics were so powerful they caused my kidneys to fail. I was put on dialysis everyday for 3 years. The Staff Members managed the Care Plans with the Clients/Patients and I was responsible for the Ministry Administration. In 10/2009 I was approved for the UAB transplant list. On September 22, 2010 I received a kidney & pancreas from an Organ Donor.Today it is a previlage to serve others as We serve "The Lord". I teach others how to work for God and to be Blessed with so much Happiness and Joy in their hearts.I hope and pray that we will continue to serve others with our Hearts. Thank you to all those that have been on this Path with me I couldn't have done it without you. God Bless. Amen

To "let go" does not mean to stop caring. It means I can't do it for someone else.To "let go" is not to cut myself off. It's the realization that I can't control another.To "let go" is to admit powerlessness,which means the outcome is not in my hands.To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another. It's to make the most of myself.To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.To "let go" is not to be in the middle, arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.To "let go" is not to nag, scold, or argue, but insteadto search out my own shortcomings and correct them.To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future.To "let go" is to fear less and to love more.

March 30, 2017Verse of the DayGod is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. Hebrews 6:10 NIV

Positive ThoughtsMake your heart happy , and let it reflect on everything you do !Posted: 30 Mar 2017 05:06 AM PDTHold on to your dreams and never let them go.Show the rest of the world how wonderful you are !Give circumstances a chance , and give others the benefit of the doubt.Wish on a star that shines in your sky.Take on your problems one by one and work things out.Rely on all the strength you have inside.Let loose of the sparkle and spirit that you sometimes try to hide.Stay in touch with those who touch your life with love.Look on the bright side and don't let the losers keep you from winning.Be yourself, because you are filled with special qualities that have brought you this far and that will always see you through.Keep your spirits up.Make your heart happy , and let it reflect on everything you do !Ceal Carson.

November 22, 2016Verse of the DayBut thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:57 NIVPositive ThoughtsThe Balanced Self Posted: 21 Nov 2016 09:44 AM PSTThe man walks out on the high wire over empty space, sways above the breathless crowd, defies the law of gravity. . . .The successful living of a life can be compared to walking across a high wire.The indispensable quality needed is balance.The balanced self is the well-integrated self. A harmonious combination of all the constructive elements of personality makes the self whole.The balanced self practices moderation, avoids extremes, follows the maxim "Not anything too much."The balanced self meets the challenges of life with equanimity. It is neither exalted by success nor dejected by failure. It meets despair with hope and climbs the heights with humility.The balanced self maintains mental equilibrium. It has ideals without illusions. It separates fact from fancy. It keep a level head.The balanced self is mature. It considers everything from a grown-up viewpoint balanced by a child's simplicity.The balanced self balances dreams with action. It uses the power of inner thought to inspire outer achievement. And it uses action to stimulate further dreams.The balanced self guards against quick emotional reactions. It does not jump to impulsive conclusions. It delays action until it has had time, calmly and fairly, to balance all the factors involved.The balanced self is resilient; it is flexible to change. Like a tree in the wind, it bends without breaking.The balanced self knows the error of constant effort. It renews itself through prayer and relaxation, that it may apply a higher impact of energy and creative power to the task at hand.The balanced self lives a balanced life. It balances work and play, love and worship.The balanced self maintains the I AM of the spirit at the center of self, in full command of its destiny.Wilferd A. Peterson

October 5, 2016Verse of the DayI will praise you with an upright heart as I learn your righteous laws.Psalm 119:7 NIVPositive ThoughtsLove the Presence within by Rhonda ByrnePosted: 04 Oct 2016 04:11 PM PDTThe truth is that the Universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are aware. Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day. The channels those answers can come through are unlimited. They could be delivered in the form of a newspaper headline that attracts your attention, or overhearing someone speaking, or a song on the radio, or signage on a truck passing by, or receiving a sudden inspiration. Remember to remember, and become aware!I have found on my own life and in others' lives that we do not think well of ourselves or love ourselves completely. To not love ourselves can keep what we want from us. When we don't love ourselves, we are literally pushing things away from us.Everything we want, whatever it may be, is motivated by love. It is to experience the feelings of love in having those things--youth, money, the perfect person, job, body, or health. To attract the things we love we must transmit love, and those things will appear immediately.The catch is, to transmit the highest frequency of love, you must love yourself, and that can be difficult for many. If you focus on the outside and what you see now, you may trip yourself up, because what you see and feel about you now is the result of what you used to think. If you don't love you, the person you see now is likely to be full of faults that you have found in yourself.To love yourself fully, you must focus on a new dimension of You. You must focus on the presence inside of You. Take a moment and sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside you. As you focus on the presence within, it will begin to reveal itself to You. It is a feeling of pure love and bliss, and it is perfection. That presence is the perfection of You. That presence is the real You. As you focus on that presence, as you feel, love, and praise that presence, you will love yourself fully, quite possibly for the first time in your life.Any time you look at yourself with critical eyes, switch your focus immediately to the presence within, and its perfection will reveal itself to You. As you do this, all imperfections that have manifested in your life will dissolve, because imperfections cannot exist in the light of this presence. Whether you want to regain perfect eyesight, dissolve disease and restore well-being, turn poverty into abundance, reverse aging and degeneration, or eradicate any negativity, focus on and love the presence within you and perfection will manifest.The absolute truth is that the "I" is perfect and complete; the real "I" is spiritual and can therefore never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.Charles Haanel

September 30, 2016Verse of the DayI urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.1 Timothy 2:1-2 NIVPositive ThoughtsObstacles Posted: 29 Sep 2016 03:39 PM PDTHowever great the obstacles between you and your goal may be or have been, do not lay the blame of your failure upon them. Other people have succeeded in overcoming just as great obstacles. Remove such hindrances from the path for others, if you can, or tell them a way to go around. Even lead them a little distance and cheer them on.But so far as you yourself are concerned, do not stop to excuse any delinquency or half-heartedness or defeat by the plea of circumstance or environment. The great nature makes its own environment, and dominates circumstance. It all depends upon the amount of force in your own soul.While you apply this rule to yourself and make no scapegoat of "fate," you must have consideration for the weakness of others, and you must try and better the conditions of the world as you go along.You are robust and possessed of all your limbs. You can mount over the great boulder which has fallen in the road to success, and go on your way to your goal all the stronger for the experience.But behind you comes a one-legged man.a blind man.a man bowed to the earth with a heavy burden, which he cannot lay down. It will require weeks, months, years of effort on their part to climb over that rock which you surmounted in a few hours.So it is right and just for you to call other strong ones to your aid and roll the boulder away or blast it out of the path. That is just exactly the way you should think of the present industrial conditions. In spite of them, the strong, well-poised, earnest and determined soul can reach any desired success.But there are boulders in the road which do not belong there, boulders which cause hundreds of the pilgrims who are lame or blind or burdened, to fall by the wayside and perish. It is your duty to aid in removing these obstacles and in making the road a safe and clear thoroughfare for all who journey.Do not sit down by the roadside and say you have been hindered by these difficulties, that is to confess yourself weak. Do not mount over them and rush to your goal and say coldly to the throngs behind you, "Oh, everybody can climb over that rock who really tries--didn’t I?" That is to announce yourself selfish and unsympathetic.No doubt the lame, the blind and the burdened could attain the goal despite the rocks if they were fired by a consciousness of the divine force within them; that consciousness can achieve all things under all circumstances. But there will always be thousands of pilgrims toiling wearily toward the goal who have not come to this realization.If there are unjust, unfair and unkind restrictions placed about them, see to it that you do all in your power to right what is wrong. But never wait to attain your own success because of these restrictions or obstacles.Believe absolutely in your own God-given power to overcome anything and everything. Think of yourself as performing miracles with God’s aid.Desire success so intensely that you attract it as the magnet attracts the steel.Help to adjust things as you go along, but never for a moment believe that the lack of adjustment can cause you to fail.Ella Wheeler Wilcox

September 24, 2016Verse of the DayFor you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Psalm 139:13-14 NIVPositive Thoughts​I Don't Believe in Defeat.Posted: 23 Sep 2016 09:21 AM PDTThere is no difficulty you cannot overcome. A wise and philosophical man once said to me, when asked how he overcame his difficulties, "How do I get through a trouble? Well, first I try to go around it, and if I can't go around it, I try to get under it, and if I can't get under it, I try to go over it, and if I can't get over it, I just plow right through it." Then he added, "God and I plow right through it."An effective method for making your mind positive in character is to eliminate certain expressions of thought and speech which we may call the "little negatives." These negatives clutter up the average person's conversation, and while each one is seemingly unimportant in itself, the total effect is to condition the mind negatively. When this thought of "little negatives" first occurred to me, I began to analyze my own conversational habits and was shocked by what I found. I was making such statements as, "I'm afraid I'll be late," or "I wonder if I'll have a flat tire," or "I don't think I can do that."These are "little negatives" to be sure, and a big thought is of course more powerful than a little one. But it must never be forgotten that "mighty oaks from little acorns grow," and if many "little negatives" clutter up your conversation, they are bound to seep into your mind. It is surprising how they accumulate in force, and before you know it, they will grow into "big negatives." So I determined to root those "little negatives" out of my conversation. I found that the best way to eliminate them was deliberately to say a positive word about everything. When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, good results do occur.On a roadside billboard I saw an advertisement of a certain brand of motor oil. The slogan read, "A clean engine always delivers power." So will a mind free of negatives. Therefore flush out your thoughts, give yourself a clean mental engine, remembering that a clean mind, even as a clean engine, always delivers power.So to overcome your obstacles and live the "I don't believe in defeat" philosophy, cultivate a positive-idea pattern. What we do with obstacles is directly determined by our mental attitude. Most of our obstacles are mental in character."Ah," you may object, "mine are not mental, mine are real."Perhaps so, but your attitude toward them is mental. What you think about your obstacles largely determines what you do about them. Form the mental attitude that you cannot remove an obstacle and you will not remove it. But when your mind becomes convinced that you can do something about difficulties, astonishing results will begin to happen. All of a sudden you discover that you have the power you would never acknowledge.Norman Vincent Peale

September 10, 2016Verse of the DayMay the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.​Romans 15:13 NIVPositive ThoughtsLove the Presence within.Posted: 09 Sep 2016 09:41 AM PDTThe truth is that the Universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are aware. Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day. The channels those answers can come through are unlimited. They could be delivered in the form of a newspaper headline that attracts your attention, or overhearing someone speaking, or a song on the radio, or signage on a truck passing by, or receiving a sudden inspiration. Remember to remember, and become aware!I have found on my own life and in others' lives that we do not think well of ourselves or love ourselves completely. To not love ourselves can keep what we want from us. When we don't love ourselves, we are literally pushing things away from us.Everything we want, whatever it may be, is motivated by love. It is to experience the feelings of love in having those things--youth, money, the perfect person, job, body, or health. To attract the things we love we must transmit love, and those things will appear immediately. The catch is, to transmit the highest frequency of love, you must love yourself, and that can be difficult for many. If you focus on the outside and what you see now, you may trip yourself up, because what you see and feel about you now is the result of what you used to think. If you don't love you, the person you see now is likely to be full of faults that you have found in yourself.To love yourself fully, you must focus on a new dimension of You. You must focus on the presence inside of You. Take a moment and sit still. Focus on feeling the life presence inside you. As you focus on the presence within, it will begin to reveal itself to You. It is a feeling of pure love and bliss, and it is perfection. That presence is the perfection of You. That presence is the real You. As you focus on that presence, as you feel, love, and praise that presence, you will love yourself fully, quite possibly for the first time in your life.Any time you look at yourself with critical eyes, switch your focus immediately to the presence within, and its perfection will reveal itself to You. As you do this, all imperfections that have manifested in your life will dissolve, because imperfections cannot exist in the light of this presence. Whether you want to regain perfect eyesight, dissolve disease and restore well-being, turn poverty into abundance, reverse aging and degeneration, or eradicate any negativity, focus on and love the presence within you and perfection will manifest.Rhonda Byrne

August 27, 2016Verse of the DayYou will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. ​Isaiah 26:3 NIV​Positive ThoughtsIt's Never Too Late to ChangePosted: 26 Aug 2016 04:46 PM PDTAt any time, you can decide to change the road you're on in life, take a new direction, follow a new trail. You are the only one who really knows what you want from life and if you're on the right road for you. You are the only one who can fulfill your dreams and receive the joys and happiness that come from reaching those aspirations and goals.Don't expect others to be responsible for your happiness and your success. You must take control and be in charge of your destiny and day-to-day situations. Take advice (most of the time it's free) and listen to what others have to say and what concerns they have; it's important to have different points of view. But always validate those words of wisdom with your own set of standards and make sure that the advice has meaning to your sense of reality.You must understand yourself enough to know what you want in life and what desires you believe are worthwhile for your future. You need to depend upon yourself and your talents. Appreciate others for their personal skills and abilities, but always continue to focus on your own strengths and energies. Life is much too short to spend it worrying about someone else's accomplishments or expecting someone else to be responsible for making your life better.If you have dreams, then you have a purpose. You have something to believe in and work towards obtaining. Dedicate yourself to yourself. Promise yourself a life filled with love, and then whatever roads you travel will be the roads you want them to be.